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Willy's Golden Age flight to Oz in the Twin Beech

Leg 13 VYSW - VTBD

Heading to Bangkok, but reserving a possible divert to Rangoon (VYYY) should it be necessary.
 
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the Captain. Our navigator has apparently gotten into the medicinal brandy again. At this point we have no clue where Rangoon is, so we shall continue on to where we think Bangkok might be. Nothing to worry about, just a typical Flight 19 snafu.....

ETA Destination: We're gonna be a bit late to where ever we're going due to a 10kt headwind the whole trip this far...
 
Wasn't a tad late getting there, but my ISP had a service outage in this area about 20 mins from landing at Bangkok. Which made the clicking the Real Wx unable to connect to the internet box every minute or so a lot of fun.

Anyway, I still got a valid Duenna out of it.

Distance: 579.7 nm
Total Distance: 6002.6nm

Time this flight: 03:17:31
Total Time: 32:33:40

Here's the partial race track which quits at where I was at when I lost internet:

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=vQbvFFiB9JGP4IcfCovHdDi8nZI
 
Leg 15 WMKA - WSSL

Heading out to Singapore.. lots of NDBs enroute too! ADF heaven :ernae:
 
Landed safely at Selaparang (WRRA). Interesting flight as I had to climb up to 11,500 to clear a volcano, but the best winds were down around 3,500.


Distance: 565.4 nm
Total Distance: 7881.3nm

Time this flight: 03:01:56
Total Time: 42:47:05

http://www.fsrtwrace.com/track/ShowFlight.php?detail=flight&value=b1GjMSF3mswBSaAETkqHAAyqGcw

Pics..
1) Ramp at Jakarta. Nice looking Flying Dutchman there.
2) Got a pic of the volcano crater for PRB
3) Parked at Selaparang
 
Leg #18 WRRA - ?

Okay, here's the deal.. I possibly can fly from here to Darwin in one straight shot. The only catch is that it's right at the end of my range according to the default flight planner and we all know how reliable that is. WRRK is almost on the direct flight path, about half way to Darwin and is an approved airfield. So, I'm going to give it my best shot to go straight to Darwin. If it looks risky at WRRK, I'm going to land there to refuel and reassess the situation. If my fuel situation looks good, then I won't land and just continue on to Darwin.

Should be an "interesting" few hours.....
 
UPDATES

0715 local.. leveled out at 11,500 with a 7kt headwind.. According to my navigator, Darwin is within reach if the weather doesn't get any worse.

1015 local... flew over WRRK with 52% fuel. Going for broke on to Darwin! I'll pick up on some range during descent ;)
 
Good luck.

Not to worry. The rumors that the Timor Sea is shark-infested are way overblown.
 
11:20ish local.. Just south of nowhere. Should be about an hour and a bit away from Darwin.
 
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